What is Beryllium?

(Pronounced ber-il' le-um) - Beryllium was discovered in 1797 by Vauquelin in Paris. Pure beryllium is a hard grayish metal. In nature, beryllium can be found in compounds in mineral rocks, coal, soil, and volcanic dust. Two kinds of mineral rocks, bertrandite and beryl, are mined commercially for the recovery of beryllium. Very pure gem quality beryl is better known as either aquamarine (blue or blue-green) or emerald (green). Beryllium is present in a variety of compounds.

Beryllium and beryllium alloys are used in electronics components, fiber optics components, nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, aircraft-satellite-space vehicle structures, X-ray transmission windows, mirrors, ceramics, bicycle frames, golf club heads, and as an additive in solid propellant rocket fuels.

U.S. companies have produced beryllium and some beryllium compounds commercially since the 1940s and beryllium oxide since 1958.

* Web Sources for Beryllium and other Elements

o What is Beryllium? - US Department of Energy Beryllium Worker Protection Web Site.

o Communicating Beryllium Health Risks Training Materials

Participant Manual 1968 k

Facilitator Manual 11810 k

o Web Elements from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Properties of Beryllium including General, Chemical, Physical, Nuclear, Electronic, Biological, Geological, Crystallographic Reduction potentials, Isotope abundances, Electronic configurations, and Ionization enthalpies.

o Brookhaven National Laboratory - National Nuclear Data Center. Properties of the various isotopes of beryllium. Nuclear wallet cards for beryllium.

o Beryllium (Be) Chemical Backgrounder from the Environmental Health Center - A Division of the National Safety Council

o Properties of Beryllium from the Chemicool Periodic Table

o Minerals Containing Beryllium from the Amethyst Galleries

Chrysoberyl

Beryl

Beryllonite

Herderite

o Defense Programs Beryllium Good Practice Guide

o Beryllium Statistics and Information from the US Geological Survey (USGS)

Beryllium

o Beryllium from EcoIndiana

o Beryllium Profile from AMM Online

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

Who provides Material Safety Data Sheets? OSHA does not prepare or dictate the specific statements to be included on material safety data sheets (MSDS). Chemical manufacturers and importers of hazardous chemical products prepare MSDS. They make the determinations as to what chemicals are covered within the context of the standard's requirements and design the MSDSs appropriately.

* EPA Fact Sheets for Beryllium

o Beryllium and Compounds

o Beryllium Chloride

o Beryllium Fluoride

o Beryllium Nitrate

o Beryllium Oxide

o Beryllium - 7

* HTML Version of the EPA fact sheet. Material Data Sheet on Beryllium - August 1, 1987

* Beryllium compounds (as Be)

* International Chemical Safety Cards - Beryllium ; ICSC: 0226 ; Beryllium - Glucinium (powder) Be Atomic mass: 9.0

* Material Safety Data Sheets from Brush Wellman Inc. - Contains all of BWIs product MSDS for metals, chemicals, and ceramics.

* The Vermont SIRI MSDS collection

United States Government Regulations and Fact Sheets

* Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

o 1995/1996/1997 Title 40 - Environmental Protection CFR Pilot

Chapter I-Environmental Protection Agency

# Subchapter C (1995/1996/1997) - Air Programs

* Part 61 (Updated 1997) - National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants

* Subpart C - National Emissions Standard for Beryllium

o SF-83 Supporting Statement, Environmental Protection Agency Standards of Performance, NESHAP Subpart C Beryllium

* Subpart D - National Emission Standard for Beryllium Rocket Motor Firing

# Subchapter D (1995/1996/1997) - Water Programs

# Subchapter I (1995/1996/1997) - Solid Wastes

* Part 258 (Updated 1997) - Criteria For Municipal Solid Waste Landfills

* Part 258 - Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Criteria

o Fact Sheets

Beryllium and Compounds 107-02-8

National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Technical Factsheet on: Beryllium

National Primary Drinking Water Regulations Consumer Factsheet on: Beryllium

Drinking Water Regulations and Health Advisories

o Documents

Fossil Fuel Electric Power Generation Sector Notebook Project Sector Notebook Project September 1997

Protecting Your Drinking Water Sources - Approved Methods for Inorganic Chemicals and Other Parameters

* Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

o OSHA Regulations (Standards - 29 CFR)

Table of Contents - Part 1910 Subpart I - Personal Protective Equipment

# 1910.134 - Respiratory Protection.

# 1910.134 App C - Respiratory Protection.

1910.252 - General requirements.

1910.1000 TABLE Z-1 - TABLE Z-1 Limits for Air Contaminants.

1910.1000 TABLE Z-2 - TABLE Z-2

1910.1200 Hazard Communication

1915.51 - Ventilation and protection in welding, cutting and heating.

1915.1000 - Air contaminants

1917.152 - Welding, cutting and heating (hot work)

1926.55 App A - Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists.

1926.353 - Ventilation and protection in welding, cutting, and heating.

o OSHA Federal Register - CFR Title: 29 Semiannual Agenda of Regulations - 63:22217-22275 - 04/27/1998

Department of Labor (DOL) OSHA Prerule Stage

# 2026. • OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO BERYLLIUM

What is Beryllium Disease (Berylliosis)?

* Beryllium Disease from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center

* National Jewish Medical and Research Center ; Med Facts - Beryllium Disease

* Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

o December 1988 Public Health Statement on Beryllium